AT LEAST THINGS WERE STABLE UNDER

AT LEAST THINGS WERE STABLE UNDER MOBUTU

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, conservative columnist Michael O’Hanlon goes on about a permanent US military presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (this in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Eastern Congo, the site of a civil war implicating not just Congolese but two other countries in the region).

O’Hanlon’s piece is really all just fishing: He advocates for an American force made up of volunteers recruited specifically for “peacekeeping missions.” This is all nonsense since we know the US hasn’t (and won’t) deplore troops in Africa since the disaster of Somalia in the early 1990s and an easier solution would be to, for once, join a US peacekeeping force.